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 This year's Top of the Gulf Regatta is shaping up to be something really special. The entry list already includes 65 names. Add in the huge fleet of Optimist contesting the Thai Nationals, and then the beach cat fleet - and now there will be 20-30 world class windsurfers in the NeilPryde Racing Series – a one-design windsurfing class world tour, racing the Olympic-standard ISAF RS:One (story below). And we are even promised the possibility of an exhibition night race with LED sails. Blimey! Bill Gasson will be feeling well pleased, we are sure.
And still on the subject of Top of the Gulf - there is still one, just one, Platu available for charter. The Coronation Cup, raced in Platus, is a highlight of the regatta and undoubtedly one of the most seriously-contested divisions on the water. If you like small keelboats, warm water, sunshine and cold beer, pick up the phone now and grab the last boat (story below). It would be a shame to miss it. My bags are packed already.
Guy Nowel, Editor
Volvo Ocean Race: Camper finishes, Leg 5 is completed
VolvoOcean Race, 
After 31 days racing Camper finally crossed the Leg 5 finish line in Itajaí, Brazil, just after noon, at 12:35:44 UTC, having sailed an average of 1,400 nautical miles further and 11 days longer than their counterparts on the podium. Relief was visible on the faces of the 11 crew as they claimed fourth place in the race from one of their home ports, Auckland, New Zealand to Brazil, earning them... [more]
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Global Ocean Race - Third Class40 division announced for 2013-14
Oliver Dewar, 
The double-handed Global Ocean Race 2011-12 Class40s are currently picking up speed off Brazil in the 5,700-mile Leg 4 from Punta del Este, Uruguay, to Charleston, USA, having completed around 23,000 miles of racing since the start in Palma, Mallorca, last September and have, so far, visited three stopovers in South Africa, New Zealand and South America.... [more]
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Philippines' Commodore's Cup 2012. Hi Fi wins. Speeches. Fireworks
Guy Nowell, Sail-World Asia, 
Today it didn't happen – the sea breeze, that is. Instead, two races went away in a solid 10kts, even if it was a bit left-right shifty, but never enough to demand an actual mark change. ‘Challenging', someone called it, but then if there were no challenge every Tom, Dick or Harry could win a yacht race, right? Hi Fi took off at great pace, and was still leading at the second top mark when a susta... [more]
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